Just in: Pakistan violates ceasefire in the Akhnoor sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Indian army responding to fire from Pakistan Army. Pakistani troops began indiscriminate firing at 11:45 am. No injury or casualty reported on the Indian side.

Four months earlier, Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked mortar shelling on the Indian side along the Line of Control in Poonch sector.

Nearly a dozen people had been killed and three dozen others injured between July-September last year in unprovoked firing and mortar shelling from across the border which had been started after Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had met PM Narendra Modi at Ufa and reiterated his governments resolve to fight terror and have friendly relations with India.

Details awaited.


Image: Smoke rises due to a mortar shell fired by the Pakistani Army near the Line of Control in Balakote sector at Poonch in Jammu in 2015